This house cleaning of the National Intelligence Service is long over due:

President-elect Lee Myung-bak’s transition team is pushing ahead with overhauling the roles and missions of the nation’s spy agency to help its strengthen activities in collecting intelligence on North Korea, officials said Monday. The incoming government will also streamline the agency drastically, replacing some […]

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After attempts to remove the pro-North Korean elements from South Korea’s Democratic Labor Party, it looks like it is business as usual once again in the DLP:

At an emergency party convention on Monday, members of the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) voted against all the key points in a reform plan its emergency committee had prepared […]

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This could get very interesting:

National Intelligence Service Director Kim Man-bok on Tuesday resigned after admitting that he leaked the transcript of a purported conversation he had with North Korea’s head of clandestine activities in the South, Kim Yang-gon. The leak to the JoongAng Ilbo of a strikingly innocuous conversation between the two Kims in Pyongyang […]

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UPDATE: One Free Korea thinks they may be discussing what to do with their clandestine spy ring that was uncovered last year.
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North Korea’s chief of intelligence has stopped by Seoul to give orders to his top spies:
There were no agreements. No tangible results. So why did the head of the North’s spy agency, Kim Yang-gon, […]

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The Ilshimhoe spy group that has been responsible for helping ferment anti-US sentiment in South Korea and transferring state secrets to North Korea which included members of a leading political party, have been convicted:
A Seoul court convicted five people, including a Korean-American businessman, of spying for North Korea, but acquitted them of charges of forming […]

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An anti-US activists being investigated for spying?  Say it ain’t so:

The Seoul police have announced that it is investigating a photographer on suspicion of military espionage.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced on January 24 that it has been conducting a investigation on Mr. Lee (40), a photographer, for several months after obtaining a wiretap warrant. […]

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The indictments are in and it isn’t looking good for those indicted:
The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office in interim results announced Friday said it indicted Chang Min-ho, a 44-year-old ethnic Korean businessman from the U.S. and alleged leader of the ring; Sohn Chong-mok, a former student activist; Lee Jung-hoon, a former member of the minor […]

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Is there anyone out there suprised by the arrest of one of the leaders of the MacArthur protests as a North Korean spy? From the Chosun:
An activist who is on parole after serving time for spying for North Korea has been arrested for espionage again. Kang Soon-jeong, the former vice chairman of the South […]

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One Free Korea has the scoop on the latest update on the North Korean spy ring uncovered within the South Korean government that President Roh has tried his best to cover up. The Donga provides this update:
It was confirmed on November 26 that among the documents found at Jang Min-ho’s residence, the name of […]

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Joong Ang Ilbo is reporting that the leader of the spy ring once served in the US Army:
The Seoul Central District Public Prosecutors Office and the National Intelligence Service said Mr. Jang had joined the U.S. military in 1989 when he was a permanent resident of the United States and served at Yongsan Garrison, the […]

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The North Korean spy scandal in South Korea continues to get interesting as the Korean National Intelligence Service Chief who resigned in the wake of the spy scandal is accusing the ruling Korean government of trying to influence the investigation of the North Korean spies:
National Intelligence Service chief Kim Seung-kyu said the case involves long-serving […]

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A North Korean spy ring has been uncovered in South Korea and it’s members are really not surprising:
Authorities are holding a U.S. citizen, Michael Chang (44), who they say was trained as a spy in North Korea between 1989 and 1993, became a member of the ruling Korean Workers Party, pledged allegiance to the […]

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